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tijjped on their outer webs with brown, and on their inner 

 webs with Avhite ; lateral tail-feathers white, with an oval 

 spot of brown near the tip of the inner web ; the next on 

 each side white, crossed by a band, the inner portion of which 

 is black, and the outer brown ; bill red at the base, black at 

 the tip ; legs and feet brown. 



The young during their first year have all the upper surface 

 light reddish brown ; the feathers of the breast with a spot of 

 brown in the centre ; the band across the abdomen pale 

 chestnut ; in other respects the colouring is similar to that 

 of the male, 



Sp. 51G. GL AREOLA ORIENTALIS, Leach. 



Oriental Pratincole. 



Glareolu orientalis, Leach in Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. pp. 13.2, 187, 



tab. 13. fig. 1, male, fig. 2, female. 

 Oriental Pratincole, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ix. p. 365. 



Glareola orientalis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. vi. pi. 23. 



A small collection of birds presented to the Linnean Society 

 in the early part of 1827 by Alexander Macleay, Esq., of 

 Sydney, comprised a pair of these birds ; unfortunately the 

 whole were unaccompanied by any information as to the part 

 of Australia in which they had been procured, but as all the 

 other species were peculiar to the eastern and northern parts 

 of the continent, it is reasonable to infer that the present biid 

 was also killed in one or other of those localities. The true 

 habitat of the Oriental Pratincole is India and the neighbouring 

 islands ; it is most likely, therefore, that its visits to Australia 

 are only occasional. 



Crown and all the upper surface olive ; primaries brownish 

 black ; secondaries black, glossed with green ; tail-coverts aiul 

 tail white, the apical portion of the latter black ; throat white, 

 encircled by a broken ring of black ; chest greyish brown ; 

 upper part of the abdomen crossed by an indistinct band of 



